Greetings!

I have always wanted to see (or rather "hear") you appear with George Noory or Ian Punnett on C2C. Have you considered it? I think it would be fascinating, and would probably steer millions of people towards free software, even if it was just to try Open/Libre Office to save a few (hundred) bucks. Hell, it may just inspire some to start programming.

Thanks for your time, and all that you've accomplished.

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It's a little eerie: I just watched the documentary "Reclaiming the Blade" with my friends last night. Bob Anderson was very interesting in it.

There's always PaperDisk, apparently able to store 1 meg per sheet. They quote 4MB, but that's after compression and BS to people like us. :-)

Heh, that brings back memories of 88KB on my Atari's floppies, which I doubled by cutting a notch on the other side and flipping it over, even if they were sold as Single-Sided Single Density.

As for the OP, so far I'm keeping stuff on external hard drives, but I know it's not the best solution for long-term. Where are those multi-layer FMD discs I kept hearing about?

I can't believe I didn't find "Cheech" or "Chong" with my browser's search. My step-brother saw Up in Smoke in the theater when he was ten or so. Some people were smoking in front, and he said, "They have smell-o-vision!"

It's just a matter of time before movies start adding smell tracks and George Lucas has another excuse to re-release the Star Wars movies again. Hmm, "Smellies!"

Uh oh... so I was practicing recreational solvent use on all those camping trips...

When did water get into this? I can't recommend drinking the stuff straight myself! :-ß

Whoops... I meant that to be 2005.

D`oh!

They certainly made me forget about Hollywood Video and Blockbuster back in 1995.

While their price rose to $19.99/mo this year, I'll always remember them for sending me an e-mail a few years back, saying their rates were going to be lowered from $17.99 to $16.99. There is also the way they like to send an extra "+" movie if something in my queue comes from another part of the country because of the delay.

Superior value indeed!

(I killed my cable back in 1999, but that was because most of my entertainment came from reading and writing on the net, as well as the previously mentioned video stores.)

I just spent last weekend watching most of the fourth season of SJA, except for the last story: "Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith," then I got the news yesterday. I'm sure no one knew that would be her final show. It's going to make it sad when I finally watch it.

A few episodes back, there was "The Death of The Doctor" with Matt Smith. The real surprise was Katy Manning playing Jo Grant: the previous companion. It was neat seeing them interact, although the previous get-together between Sarah Jane and Rose Tyler can't be beat. I see Manning was born in 1949, so she's a bit younger. I also see she once posed nude with a Dalek back in '77. *scratches head* Okay, back to Ms. Sladen.

I had no idea she was in her sixties--she looked great and had to be in shape. Cancer is a real bastard.

I first saw her and The Doctor (Tom Baker) when I was twelve or so, thanks to PBS for bringing it to us in the states all these years. She will be missed.

My Casio Wave Ceptor radio-controlled watch has been having a hard time receiving WWVB's 60KHz signal for the last week. I'm in Oregon, but then late night long-distance transmissions are squirrely by nature.

[Dude could optimize a NOP.]

Heh heh. I like that!

Let's see... directly hacking a machine code that involves a two-byte address to the faster zero-page version so it's only one-byte, and inserting a NOP into the extra space so the machine doesn't crash... I always wondered if that instruction had a purpose.

I'd love to see the source for Robotron. I'll bet it's some of the most elegant code ever.

Damn, I'm showing my age.

Oh yes. I had those in my Windows 95B years, and even bought his book on Windows architecture. Those were the days.

Sure, he wasn't a PC programmer, but his work at Williams from the pinball to videogame eras were an inspiration!